Government assisted mass extinction:
“The Killing Fields Await Yellowstone Bison Once Again In Montana
MORE THAN 10,000 OF THE AMERICAN ICONS HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED BASED ON A NOW DEBUNKED PREMISE, AND THERE IS A CONNECTION TO WYOMING'S CONTROVERSIAL FEEDGROUNDS.”
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Mark Graham:
“A record 50.7C in Onslow, WA yesterday. Argentina hitting temps >45C.. And this happening in the southern cryosphere.. Feedback upon feedback upon feedback... all dire signs of the #Anthropocene - gotta turn it immediately into the #Symbiocene .. #omsnotbombs”
Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2020-09-19 _F2A0576aaa
January 5, 2022 “Terrifying Arctic greenhouse gas levels continue”
“NOAA's September 2021 global mean methane reading is 1900.5 parts per billion (ppb), which is 15.8 ppb higher than the reading for September 2020. By comparison, NOAA's annual global mean methane increase for 2020 of 15.74 ppb was at the time the highest on record.”
“METHANE GROWTH
Growth in methane averages between latitudes 60°S and 60°N was 14.6 parts per billion (ppb) in 2020 and 16.3 ppb in 2021, according to a Copernicus news release.
The added trend ominously points at a growth rate for 2022 that could be more than 20 ppb.
From the post 'Terrifying Arctic greenhouse gas levels continue', at:”
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Mark Trewick:
“Each and every day, the planet absorbs the heat equivalent to approximately 5,000,000 Hiroshima bombs and the rate of increase is rising exponentially.”
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“When Medieval Peasants Revolted Against The Establishment | Peasants' Revolt Of 1381 | Timeline”
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“Climate Change: Incoming Sunlight”
“The Milankovitch cycles over the past million years have affected incoming sunlight and global ice volume on Earth. But changes in the sun are NOT the cause of our recent warming.”
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“Earth Shaker
Yesttteiroda0h0y at92 505:00e A1dM ·
Fast Facts on the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcanic eruption
• On Saturday, Tonga's Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano erupted violently, launching plumes of ash and gas steam 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) into the air.
• The volcano erupted at 3:10 pm AEDT on Saturday (12:10 pm PhST)
• Sonic booms can be heard as far as Alaska; numerous weather stations worldwide record the shockwave generated by the eruption.
• Tsunami warnings have been issued for Japan, New Zealand, the United States, and British Columbia, Canada. PHIVOLCS has not yet issued a tsunami warning.
• The Philippines is 8, 014 kilometers (4, 980 miles) away from Tonga's Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano.
• The ash cloud spans nearly 700 kilometers (668 km) in diameter. To put this in context, that is about the distance between Manila and Anahawan, Southern Leyte, which is 667.58 kilometers (414.82 miles)”
References:
[1] Stambaugh, A. L. S. (2022, January 16). Tonga: Tsunami advisories in effect for California and Japan as waves hit Pacific island following volcanic eruption. CNN. Retrieved January 16, 2022, from https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/15/asia/tsunami-warning-tonga-volcano-intl-hnk/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2TRDHfdcbebobvKfXw2m4YXeSy0GHQ35ixNMEsFQOAoI65sA9FP0ryJLA
[2] Team, F. W. W. (2022, January 16). Tonga: Size of eruption put into perspective (InfoGraphics & Maps). WeatherWatch.Co.Nz. Retrieved January 16, 2022, from https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/tonga-size-of-eruption-put-into-perspective-x4-infographics?fbclid=IwAR1kEUVUWRmNByAGy3nRivpR6G8THkdyYweox35QvL9hEnMVqaMjls_FQzQ
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Daily Updates of Antarctica’s doomsday glacier breaking off:
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“One of the World’s Dirtiest Oil Patches Is Pumping More Than Ever
Multinational producers have exited Canada’s oil sands, but local companies have stepped in; ‘we will continue to see growth’”
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Kevin Hester:
“3.5 trillion tonnes of ice lost in the last decade alone.
Abrupt climate change writ large.
Added to my blog post titled "Cascading Consequences of the Loss of Arctic Sea Ice"”
“Earth from Space: Kangerlussuaq Glacier”
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“Brazilian turtle breeders shot dead along with teenage daughter”
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“Brazil Floods - Dozens Die
Heavy Damage to infrastructure Reported BBCA”
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“One Answer to America’s Recycling Problems—Make Big Brands Pay”
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“A rise of more than 5C could happen within a decade, possibly by 2026. Humans will likely go extinct with a 3C rise and most life on Earth will disappear with a 5C rise. In the light of this, we should act with integrity.”
“A methane burst of twice the size of the methane that is in the atmosphere could trigger a cloud feedback causing 8C or 14.4F heating (chart right). There are many elements that can cause heating, so the feedback could be triggered even with far less methane (chart left).”
“A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions is unfolding. Life is disappearing from Earth and runaway heating could destroy all life. At 5°C heating, most life on Earth will have disappeared. When looking only at near-term human extinction, 3°C will likely suffice. Study after study is showing the size of the threat, yet too many keep ignoring or denying it, at the peril of the world at large.
June 2019 was the hottest June on record, it was 2.08°C (or 3.74°F) hotter than the annual global mean 1980-2015, partly due to seasonal variation.
How high could the annual average anomaly be for 2019? NASA data through June 2019 confirms an earlier analysis that it could be 1.85°C (or 3.33°F) hotter in 2019 than in 1750.
Remember the 2015 Paris Agreement, when politicians pledged to act on the threat of climate change, including by “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels . . . ”
A rapid temperature rise could take place soon. The 2°C (or 3.6°F) guardrail could be crossed soon, i.e. in 2020 when looking at the long-term trend (in blue, based on 1880-June2019 data), or in 2019 if the current El Niño strengthens (red trend, based on 2011-June 2019 data).
In the image with the trendlines, NASA data are adjusted. Most of the adjustment reflects the use of a 1750 baseline (as opposed to NASA's 1951-1980 default baseline). Furthermore, air temperatures over ocean and higher polar anomalies are more appropriate, as confirmed by a recent study that concludes that missing data have been responsible for an underestimation of global warming by 0.1°C, and as illustrated by the image on the right, from a recent study, which shows the difference between using surface air temperature globally (black line), versus when sea surface temperature are used for oceans (dark blue line) and in case of incomplete coverage (light blue line).
While the long-term trend points at a 3°C (or 5.4°F) rise by 2026, a 3°C rise could eventuate as early as in 2020 in case of a persistently strengthening El Niño. This could cause a rapid decline of the snow and ice cover around the globe, in turn making that less sunlight gets reflected back into space. Changes to the jet stream could also contribute to a further strengthening of storms, which threatens to push large amounts of hot, salty water into the Arctic Ocean, triggering eruptions of more and more seafloor methane.
Over the first few years, methane's global warming potential (GWP) is very high. The image from IPCC AR5 shows that over a 10-year timescale, the current global release of methane from all anthropogenic sources exceeds all anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions as agents of global warming; that is, methane emissions are more important than carbon dioxide emissions for driving the current rate of global warming.
In the other image, the values for methane's GWP that are used in the IPCC image are used for a trendline, which shows that over the first few years, methane's global warming potential (GWP) is more than 150 times higher than carbon dioxide.
The trend in the image is actually conservative, as the IPCC also gives higher values for methane's GWP in AR5, i.e. for fossil methane and when including climate change feedbacks, while there also is additional warming due to the carbon dioxide that results from methane's oxidation. Furthermore, research published in 2016 and 2018 found methane to be more potent than IPCC's GWP for methane in AR5, so it seems appropriate to use 150 as methane's GWP for periods of a few years.
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“From the post "Most Important Message Ever", at:”
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US Supreme Court will act to dismantle Government:
“Effectively setting precedent for the demise of OSHA and any agency which has been chosen to delegate congress’ will. Damning evidence of Republican efforts to do away with our federal governing bodies.”
Here’s Heather Cox Richardson:
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Sue Godbee
January 14, 2022 (Friday)
“Yesterday, by a vote of 6 to 3, the Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s requirement that businesses with more than 100 employees address the coronavirus pandemic by making employees either get vaccines or, if they choose not to be vaccinated, to test weekly and wear a mask at work. Employees who work exclusively at home or mostly outside were exempted from the requirement, as were those with a religious exemption.
President Joe Biden took office vowing to get the coronavirus pandemic under control. By April 2021, his administration’s efforts to make vaccines available and get them into people’s arms were so successful that in early May he vowed to reach a 70% vaccination rate among those then eligible for the vaccine by July 4. Promptly, political opponents began to undermine confidence in the vaccine, and vaccination rates fell off dramatically.
In July, the administration tried to encourage vaccinations by requiring vaccines or testing for federal workers and for those contracting with the federal government. In November, the administration expanded those requirements with a new one under the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), established in the Department of Labor under Republican President Richard M. Nixon in 1970 to "assure safe and healthy working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance." OSHA announced a vaccine or testing requirement for businesses with more than 100 employees.
The mandate would have covered about 84.2 million Americans (our population is about 332 million). OSHA estimated (before Omicron) that the rule would save 6,500 lives and prevent 250,000 hospitalizations over a six-month period.
Employers claimed that the mandate would cost billions of dollars to implement and hundreds of thousands of employees would quit (although the actual numbers of those quitting their jobs over vaccine mandates turned out to be significantly lower than threatened). A number of Republican-dominated state legislatures, including those of Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, and Tennessee, fought the mandate by extending unemployment benefits to those fired for refusing to get the vaccine.
Those objecting to the mandate got the extremely conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas and which Trump skewed even more extremely to the right, to stop it.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, also right-leaning but less extreme, lifted the stay, permitting the rule to go into effect. Now, in a case titled National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, the Supreme Court has restored the stay.
The six justices in the majority ruled that OSHA did not have the authority to require vaccinations or masks and testing because the coronavirus is not specific to the workplace. OSHA’s responsibility is only to make sure that conditions related to the workplace are safe; it cannot regulate a workplace for a virus that is everywhere, even if people catch it at work.
The three justices who dissented, Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, seemed incredulous:
“COVID-19 poses grave dangers to the citizens of this country—and particularly, to its workers,” they wrote. “The disease has by now killed almost 1 million Americans and hospitalized almost 4 million. It spreads by person-to-person contact in confined indoor spaces, so causes harm in nearly all workplace environments. And in those environments, more than any others, individuals have little control, and therefore little capacity to mitigate risk. COVID-19, in short, is a menace in work settings. The proof is all around us: Since the disease’s onset, most Americans have seen their workplaces transformed. So the administrative agency charged with ensuring health and safety in workplaces did what Congress commanded it to: It took action to address COVID-19’s continuing threat in those spaces.”
At stake in the case is not only many thousands of American lives and restoring the stability of society, but also the same issue at the heart of our current struggle over voting rights: the relationship of the federal government to the states.
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito began their decision opposing the mandate by saying, “The central question we face today is: Who decides?” Can a federal agency charged with workplace safety mandate vaccines, or should the work of combating coronavirus belong to state and local governments and Congress?
The right-wing justices came down firmly against the federal government, using two doctrines that, if fully deployed, will destroy the modern U.S. system.
In his opinion, Gorsuch explicitly raised the concept of the “nondelegation doctrine” and the related concept of the “major questions doctrine.” The nondelegation doctrine relies on our government’s separation of powers. It says that, as its own branch of government, Congress cannot delegate regulatory authority to the executive branch, where agencies like OSHA live.
But, since Congress has, in fact, been delegating authority to the executive branch since the administration of President George Washington, those who want to reduce federal authority sometimes rely instead on the more limited major questions doctrine, which says that although Congress can delegate minor authority to administrative agencies, it cannot delegate major questions (although just how to define a major question is unclear).
A recent study by University of Southern California professor of public policy Dr. Pamela Clouser McCann and University of Michigan professor of social science Dr. Charles R. Shipan, both experts on intergovernmental delegation, found that 99% of today’s federal laws involve delegation. Unwinding them and requiring Congress to make all its own regulatory decisions would paralyze the modern government.
Those who support the idea of nondelegation argue that it guarantees government by the people rather than by an unelected bureaucracy, and this is a worthy thought. But unfortunately, it depends on the goodwill of those elected to state legislatures, and because those lawmakers also get to decide who votes in their states, that goodwill can be thin on the ground.
At heart, this is the same states’ rights argument that the U.S. has grappled with since the 1830s. Since that time, while some state legislatures have used their power to reflect the will of the people, others have limited the vote, putting a small group of people into power. Once in power, they have used the state government to promote their own interests. States’ rights advocates have consistently said that any federal interference with a state’s unfair laws is tyranny.
Since the 1930s, though, lawmakers have used the federal government to combat unfair state laws. They have regulated businesses when state lawmakers wouldn’t, protected civil rights from discriminatory state laws, and, ultimately, guaranteed the right to vote in states that kept their citizens from the polls, with the expectation that if everyone could vote, they would, indeed, create state governments that reflected the will of the majority.
The Supreme Court—which, in an ironic echo of Gorsuch’s complaints about unelected bureaucrats, is not elected—is working with today’s Republicans to dismantle this modern system, yesterday embracing the nondelegation doctrine to undercut federal regulation, even though this decision clearly will cost American lives.
Also yesterday, the court upheld a mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services requiring vaccination for healthcare workers in facilities that accept Medicare and Medicaid, both of which are funded by the federal government. It supported that mandate only by a vote of 5 to 4; four of the justices did not believe the Department of Health and Human Services has the right to require vaccines in a healthcare facility.
Meanwhile, Biden is deploying another 1000 military personnel to hospitals, which are overwhelmed with unvaccinated coronavirus patients.”
Heather Cox Richardson
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“The filibuster’s racist history, explained”
“The filibuster is currently being used as a tool of Republicans (like Mitch McConnell), who are greedily killing DEMOCRACY!!
McCONNELL is wrong through and through saying that "the filibuster never had any racial history"!! IS HE FLAT OUT LYING, OR JUST BEING AN IDIOT!!!??
The filibuster basically started as a tool of Southern senators upholding slavery. “It’s been a tool used overwhelmingly by racists,” says Kevin Kruse, a historian of race and American politics at Princeton University.
"It is arguably the most important topic in Washington, DC, right now. It is the main thing blocking Senate Democrats saving our DEMOCRACY!”
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“THE PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN THE JANUARY 6TH, 2021 INSURRECTION MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE”
“Insurrection Index
Search your state for names of those who had a hand in the January 6 Insurrection.
Insurrection Index is a searchable database of records on individuals and organizations in positions of public trust who were involved in the deadly attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. As of January 2022, the Insurrection Index has over 1,000 records of those in public trust who played a role in the insurrection.
Click on "Records" in the top bar to refine your search further:
Elected Status, Litigation Status, Elected Office Level, Insurrection-Related Information, Type of Charge, Sentence, Organization Affiliations, Occupation Type.
h/t Kathleen Murray”
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Barbaric and Depraved Trump 2.0: Biden and DemGOPs have ordered the media to no longer report COVID statistics
Or as Reporter Garret Lewis puts it "The media is covering for Biden and the Dems."
Our dying is becoming an embarrassment to Democrats career aspirations so biden has ordered that COVID stats will no longer be reported by the media. No positive COVID tests, then no COVID problem.
That means parents will have to decide whether or not is safe to send their children back to in classroom schooling using no information on COVID proliferation at all. Worse still. this means that cases involving the spread of new mutations will not be made public. So, say, if the mortality surrounding a new mutation doubles or triples from past strains the general public will not be informed. But I suppose you can make an informed guess if your child suddenly starts coughing blooding and going into convulsions. Then you'll know it is probably a good idea to wear a mask.
And how about those test kits? How much do you want to bet some people will screw it up. Maybe even assume they are good to go to a party, movie, out to eat, or work and that's the end of if. Follow up afterward with another test? Will they have testing materials available to them after testing their wife and kids? Are they going to retest every, say, week?
Yep Charles Koch is in charge of Washington's COVID policy.
Garret Lewis:
“My prediction of covid restrictions going away is looking better everyday. Now the Associated Press is telling reporters and editors to stop reporting on covid cases and making the case that covid hospitalizations and deaths aren't reliable numbers. The media is covering for Biden and the Dems.”
“Associated Press Will No Longer Report Stories About COVID Case Counts”
And the conservative ideology orgy doesn’t stop there. Try this on. It appears Charles Koch's little $10 million dollar lap poodle doesn't appear housebroken,...but he does apparently consider himself fully omnipotent:
“Neil Gorsuch defied a request from Chief Justice John Roberts to wear a mask out of respect for Sonia Sotomayor, a report says”
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The Supreme Court’s job is to protect the rich and disembowel Government’s ability to impose restrictions – of any kind – on Corporations and profit taking.
And let me be clear, Democrats are not so stupid as to couch or go about their employer COVID protection initiative(s) in a manner that if struck down they wouldn't have foreseen the possible broader legal implications against Congress’ rule making. Democrats have high priced lawyers too. They not only knew what would happen but also very probably worked with SCOTUS, SCOTUS representatives or legal experts so in fact they could deliver a big gift$$$ to oligarch profit taking on American soil:
“Trump and Republican lawmakers applaud the Supreme Court striking down Biden's 'disastrous' vaccine-or-test mandate for large private companies”
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This from the group who call themselves “Lord Pete Buttigieg’s Casual Imperialist Wine Cave”
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“The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare
The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. What should Canada do then?”
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“Massive diesel spill near New Orleans kills 2,300 fish and 32 birds, sickens dozens of alligators”
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“Methane forecasts”
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“Arctic Methane Readings Signaling Further Destabilisation of Arctic Permafrost.
In the past few days, large plumes of methane have been detected over the Arctic ocean. The readings are showing 2300+ ppb concentrations effectively maxing out the ability of the satellite to measure it. These are highly anomalous particularly as this is the coldest month of the year where we would not expect to see additional melting of sub-sea permafrost.
Concentrated methane readings are typically associated with man-made activities, intensive farming, gas, and oil fields. These seeps are a long way from human activity and therefore indicate a disturbing change in the patterns of emission from natural sources.”
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“There’s a Mysterious New Sickness in Canada and the Government is Keeping It a Secret
Will this be New Brunswick’s Flint Michigan water crisis?”
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“1 in 3 Americans now 'alarmed' by climate change. Why aren't our leaders?”
“Dept. of Happy Talk: More than 40% of Americans live in a county that was hit by climate-related disasters in 2021—extremes that will get worse.. But what should alarm us even more is how out of step our government remains with Americans' fast-evolving views on climate change, and how little state and federal leaders have done in the face of an escalating emergency.”
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“Dead crabs and rotting lobsters: Fisherman across Yorkshire have become increasingly worried for their livelihood after mass of dead sea creatures wash up on shorelines. One said he is "scared" fisherman will be forced out a business amid claims there "isn't a living thing" within three miles of the coast.”
“Yorkshire coast fishermen scared for livelihoods as 'everything is dead for miles'”
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“People who study the origins of civil wars see 'indicators' the US is on the brink of conflict, Yale historian says”
“Though the idea of another civil war in the near future seems far-fetched to many Americans, people who study such conflicts might disagree, according to Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale University. He cited the high degree of polarization, beliefs in alternative realities, and the celebration of violence.”
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“Strong evidence shows Sixth Mass Extinction of global biodiversity in progress”
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“French Parks and Public Gardens Bid Adieu to Pesticides”
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“Amazon using tax-break opportunity zones for distribution centers is part of its strategy”
“Amazon has opened 153 facilities in these zones since 2018, accounting for more than 15% of the warehouses that it has opened in that time period, according to the analysis from Good Jobs First, a policy resource center working with subsidy data, shared exclusively with The Washington Post. And 18 more facilities are scheduled to open in these areas in 2022 and 2023. The findings underscore one of the potential ways that Amazon could take advantage of federal tax subsidies as it rapidly expands its delivery network.” #unionizeamazon #shoplocal #UnionStrong Bernie SandersElizabeth WarrenABC NewsCBS NewsCNNVICE NewsTeamsters
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“Krystal Ball: GREAT DEPRESSION Looms as Elites DESTROY Economy Again”
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“The Third Pole: How climate change is affecting the Tibetan Plateau”
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“South America Calling
Heavy Rains Returning to Southern South America”
“"As a result of the heat and dryness, crop conditions across Argentina have been declining for weeks. Bolsa de Cereales in Argentina posted good-to-excellent crop ratings that fell from 83% to 23% in corn and 87% to 31% in soybeans between Dec. 16 and Jan. 13."
"The decline of conditions has led all major government and private forecasters to cut production estimates for both Argentina and Brazil. In its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report released on Jan. 12, the USDA cut corn production by 0.5 million metric tons (mmt) in Argentina and by 3 mmt in Brazil. But for soybeans, the USDA made larger cuts to production by 3 mmt in Argentina and 5 mmt in Brazil. Private estimates are pegged lower in most cases for both corn and soybeans. Both countries were forecast to have record production in corn and soybeans at the start of the season, but these latest estimates would put those forecasts into jeopardy."
"Rains are coming but the damage has already been done to first-crop corn and soybeans in southern Brazil, which are starting harvest soon, and early planted corn and soybeans in Argentina. Argentina's farmers spread out their planting due to a long growing season as a risk management strategy to avoid having a stretch of hot and dry weather decimate their entire crop. That is crucial this year under La Nina, which typically leads to dryness in the spring and summer months and has come to fruition during the last several weeks.
The early planted crops are in reproductive and grain-fill stages of development. Rains that come will help to stabilize crop conditions and keep them from declining further, but will have limited impact on improving conditions and potential yields. The later-planted crops are still in early development stages and the drought may not have had a large impact just yet. These plants will have a better time utilizing the incoming moisture."”
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“Police Presentation in Portland Celebrated Violence Against Protesters
Training materials released by the Oregon city included a meme that mocked protesters as dirty hippies and suggested they would be left “stitched and bandaged.””
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“Why did the world not become a Venus-like hellhole when huge amounts of CO2 were injected into our atmosphere by massive volcanic eruptions or asteroid impacts?
Why did it not turn into a Mars-like frozen snowball when geological weathering pulled CO2 levels almost down to zero?
James Lovelock suggested the Gaia hypothesis to explain this puzzle. Now, Gregory Retallack is putting some flesh on those bones with his extraordinary paper in Astrobiology.
The idea is easy to grasp: the regulation of planetary temperature is driven by photosynthesis. Following large releases of CO2, carbon-catching ecosystems expand, both poleward and into drylands. When CO2 levels drop, deserts and permafrost expand, reducing the expanse of carbon-catching ecosystems.
Soil carbon does look to be a primary regulator of Earth's temperature throughout our world's living history: it's Earth's thermostat.
The full paper is fascinating (see here: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/d/3735/files/2021/05/Retallack-2021-CO2-thermostat.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3m40RHeAQqxTm0Ct0vnD7hiI0VnXL90F2Q3iAmzmcGVHRALRgVn5Qmtd0 ) and its conclusion profoundly illuminating:
"Atmospheric CO2 spikes in deep time from catastrophic injections of CO2 from large igneous provinces (Retallack and Jahren, 2008; Saunders, 2016) or impacts (O’Keefe and Ahrens, 1989; Schultz and d’Hondt, 1996) have been drawn down rapidly by poleward migration of carbon-sequestering tropical forests and their soils (Oxisols) and by desertward expansion of grasslands and their soils (Mollisols). At the other extreme of low atmospheric CO2, grasslands and tropical forests retreated with expansion of deserts and their soils (Aridisols) and of ice caps and frozen soils (Gelisols). These soils of limited carbon sequestration capacity could not offset continued volcanic and metamorphic CO2 degassing. Highly varied CO2 records do not reveal long-term global equilib- rium (Fig. 1a) computed by Daisyworld models (Wood et al., 2008). Moreover, no large CO2 injection has yet run away to a terminal greenhouse such as Venus (Kasting, 1988), nor has CO2 been drawn down to an icehouse such as Mars (Sagan and Mullen, 1972). The short-term thermostat outlined here employs a familiar model of global carbon sequestration by silicate weathering inferred to offset increased warmth due to stellar evolution over the 4.6 Ga history of our solar system (Walker et al., 1981; Schwartzman and Volk, 1989). Instead of long-term evolution of terrestrial carbon sequestration (Retallack, 2010, 2013a), the model outlined here proposes temperature regulation by biogeographic migration of plants and soils. This view of temperature regulation by migration rather than evolution has implications for modern carbon sequestration in agricultural grasslands (Teague et al., 2011) and managed rain forests (Gatti et al., 2014)."
This short-term "soilworld thermostat" of the biogeographic redistribution of ecosystems complements the long-term evolution of terrestrial carbon sequestration, which curbed the effects of solar radiation increases over billions of years.
"Similar management of agricultural ecosystems thus offers potential for short-term carbon sequestration." And what does that management look like? Agroforestry, silvopastoralism, forest gardening and holistic grazing management.”
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“We have to wake up: factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics”
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“Chris Hedges REVEALS Inner Workings Of Corrupt Media”
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